V. I. Lenin

To The Fifth Congress Of The Young Communist League Of Russia[1]

Written:11 October, 1922First Published:PravdaNo. 230, October 12, 1922; Pub1ished according to the manuscriptSource:Lenin’sCollected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965,Volume 33, page 374Translated:David Skvirsky and George HannaTranscription\HTML Markup:David Walters&R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License

Dear Friends,

I regret very much that I am unable to greet you in person. I
    wish your Fifth Congress every success in its work. I am convinced that the
    youth will make such good progress that when the next stage of the world
    revolution approaches they will be fully capable of coping with their
    tasks.

With cordial communist greetings,

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

October 11, 1922

[1]This Congress was held in Moscow on October 11-17, 1922. It elected Lenin
      its honorary chairman. Lenin's greetings were read at the
      first. (ceremonial) sitting on October 11. In their greetings in reply,
      the Y.C.L.ers pledged themselves to surmount all the difficulties standing
      in the way of the working class and its youth, and asked for help in the
      communist education of young people.